I don't understand why I was so hormonally super charged that evening. I mean Mondays have been a little whacked for me ever since I told my ex that I didn't dare even try to keep the boys for an entire week this summer. (I love my three boys to death. But when they get going on a combined rampage, they could kick the shit of Attila the Hun!) Last year we made it to four and a half days and then my landlady descended upon us like the crazy witch bitch she is.
So Lee and I settled upon a compromise. I'd have them from Friday until Monday, rather then the usual Sunday. At least until they went back to school. That worked out pretty well. He could work his every other three day weekend shift and his new wife didn't have to try and deal with the horde solo. And me and the boys got an extra day together.
It some what "messed" up those weekends for me and my fiancΓ©. But he'd been going back to the house in Wisconsin he and his ex wife still owned for his weekends with his two sons anyhow. So mainly, at least in print, so to speak, it just meant he got back here some time on Monday, rather then the usual Sunday.
It was simple math and reality shit that kept his and mine apart on our custody weekends. My one bedroom apartment could barely sleep me and my three boys. There was really no way to make it work to sleep two adults and four kids. (His oldest just turned eighteen, and it's the young man's last summer vacation before either college or a full time job. Some weekends Brian doesn't even see the oldest for more then an hour or two.)
And on top of that we had vehicular issues. His small car was not made to safely transport six people around.
As I'd mentioned, he and his ex still owned the house in Wisconsin. They hadn't managed to sell it yet. Until they did, Carol lived there with their two boys and Brian basically lived here with me. He went back there on the weekends I had my boys. And quite often, on the weekends I didn't, he and I would go there so that he could mow, and water the plants and make sure the poor rabbits weren't dying of neglect.
They still shared a house together that needed to be kept in sell worthy shape.
And we had a cordial, if at times weirdly unsettling relationship with his ex and her new boyfriend.
So that extra day shouldn't have really mattered all that much in terms of the relationship. I still had my lover, my heart, with me well over twenty days out of the month.
But it did matter.
Fridays were always weird. I was already anticipating how much I would miss him. As well as thinking about how little sleep I'd be getting over the next three days. And beginning to start in on the hopes and prayers that the boys wouldn't be too loud. That the autistic one wouldn't throw a huge amount of jumping/screaming auti fits that duress forced trapped the two of us for hours on my bed.
Sometimes, with the fact that he worked nights and didn't get home until 6:30 am, we didn't always find the time to make love. And even when we did, we didn't always-finish, so to speak. We were always too aware of all the things that had to be done before he went and the boys came.
And we rarely ever made love on Mondays. Even though by that time both of us were a little crazy with unrequited lust. Either my ex didn't pick up the boys until hours after he'd said he would. (I think all my "boys" liked the time it gave us all together. I know I did.) or else Brian got to the apartment so late that he barely had time to drop his bags and make his sandwiches for the night.
So this summer I'm becoming a little used to being a crazy woman Monday nights.
When he walks in the door, I drop what ever I am doing and throw myself into his arms and we just hold each other for as long as we can. Forget about modern, independent woman for those minutes. Usually I'm literally shaking from the simple relief of having him back again safe. And I'm whispering over and over that "I missed you. God I missed you!"
If the boys have already been picked up or we can sneak into the kitchen before they realize "Brian's here" and pounce on him, we get to kiss hard and achingly hungry at least for a few minutes.
But even when they aren't there still on those summer Mondays we almost never have enough time to do more then kiss and chastely pet each other. The rare times he does get there an hour or so before work; when the boys are already picked up neither one of us ever really seems to be able to blurt "We've got time. God can we do a quick fuck, because I need it so bad!"
And this Monday was probably the worst ever. The boys were still there and we'd had a rough weekend. It had been so hot, over ninety degrees at times in the apartment that all four of us had been balancing on that thin line of lunatic rage from the moment they walked in the door. (When the "baby" of the family, my sweet and sunny seven year old is overheard muttering "I'm gonna KILL the next person who yells at me!" there's the proof that it's really, really bad.)
I got to hold my heart for maybe five minutes. Some how I managed not to start bawling out my misery all over him.
He didn't even have time to make his sandwiches. He just grabbed a frozen dinner and an orange then yelled good bye to the boys and was gone.
At that point I think we were all about to burst into hysterical sobbing but the apartment buzzer bleated and I all but threw the three boys and all their suit cases at my ex. I did at least manage not to scream at him to "get them the hell away from here!"